Submitted by MistWeaver80 t3_ysmzym in science
Well considering primates Eat what they groom from another they obviously ingest microbes and viruses from another primate as they groom them. I don't recall this activity occuring with modern humans since soap and water was invented or earlier when olive oil and strygals were used to scrape dirt off of other humans in Roman baths. Attempting to connect microbiomes within Primates because of mere "connectedness" without adding this ingestion process is disingenuous especially if trying to also connect this with microbiomes and "connectedness" among humans.
The title and article both make it seem like being sociable leads to better gut biomes, when the study just shows that they're correlated.
All titles are editorialized
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So...if you want to be a human with a healthy and diverse gut microbiome, groom your fellow humans by picking out any ticks or skin flakes they have on their back, which they can't reach themselves.
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From the article
> Social connections are essential for good health and wellbeing in social animals, such as ourselves and other primates. There is also increasing evidence that the gut microbiome – through the so-called ‘gut-brain axis’ – plays a key role in our physical and mental health
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Or that they eat a lot of good gut bugs.
Be the change you want in the world.
I'll pass.
I want to be socially connected, but I am finding our society is not set up in way that is very supportive of that.
Or maybe I’m just unlikeable
Monkey finger. Digital fecal transfer. Little dorks probably got poop everywhere
I struggle with social anxiety and loneliness and all these articles are like ‘you’re probably gonna die’
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